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If this was all positive for our region, there was still much economic hardship and suffering one year after the General Strike paralysed Britain and hinted at industrial strife that would become commonplace in the following decades.

Also, arriving in Britain in March 1927, a devastating flu epidemic would claim 1,000 lives a week.

In the wider world, this was the year Joseph Stalin took control in the Soviet Union - and his shadow would loom large over the world for the next two and half decades.

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American aviator Charles Lindbergh reached for the skies, flying the first transatlantic non-stop flight solo from New York to Paris.

And, also across the Atlantic, the first telephone call between London and New York took place.

In popular culture, and emerging from across the Atlantic, the film The Jazz Singer became the first feature length production with synchronized sound. A new art form was born and the era of silent films would be consigned to history.

In music, it was American big band sound pioneered by the likes of Duke Ellington and Hoagy Carmichael that was all the rage.

And, finally, our ancestors would have been stopped in their tracks on November 24 of this year when a total eclipse of the sun brought temporary darkness to Britain and Western Europe.

Enjoy our selection of images from the Sunday Sun and Chronicle picture archive.